You will please to accept them, and believe me to be, with much truth and esteem, your most obedient servant,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

P. S. No southern mail arriving last Saturday, we are apprehensive it has again fallen into the enemy’s hands. If it was not attended with too much trouble, should be glad you would cause inquiry to be made. If by any accident the letters are at Providence, you will please to forward them by express.

MEETING OF COMMITTEE OF INSPECTION FOR CUMBERLAND ETC., MASSACHUSETTS.

The Committee of Inspection for the Towns of Cumberland, Wrentham, Medway, Bellingham, Hopkinton, Holliston, Mendon, Uxbridge, and Upton, convened at said Bellingham, the 18th of September, 1775. Said Committees, being so convened, received an information against Captain Edward Clark, of Rutland, for purchasing and selling Tea, contrary to the Association Agreement, in article third. This body of Committees, viewing it their indispensable duty to keep said Association Agreement inviolate, taking it upon them to inquire into the facts charged in said information; said Clark being required to appear before said Committee, accordingly appeared, and confessed that he had, since the first day of March last, bought twenty pounds of Tea; that he had sold to sundry persons about five pounds and a half of the same, had used some, and the residue thereof he said was lodged with a certain man, with intent to dispose of it to two others, whom he had not opportunity to deliver it to.

Whereupon we unanimously Resolve, That said Clark’s conduct abovementioned is in direct violation of said Association Agreement; and that the said Clark is an enemy to American liberty, and ought to be treated as such. And that it be recommended to all persons who are lovers of their Country, and friends to the common rights and liberties of mankind, to break off all kind of dealings with him; and that this be published in the Gazette.

AARON PHIPS, Chairman.
NATHAN TYLER, Clerk.

ADDRESSES FROM KINGSTON UPON HULL.

Addresses presented to His Majesty, by Robert Manners, Esq., his father, the Right Honourable Lord Robert Manners, one of the Representatives in Parliament for the Town of Kingston upon Hull, having been prevented by illness from presenting them.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty:

The humble Address of the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the Town of KINGSTON UPON HULL, in Common Council assembled.

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the Town of Kingston upon Hull, deeply impressed with a sense of those royal virtues which have happily distinguished your reign, and are the great support of our civil and religious liberties, beg leave to approach your throne, and to declare our abhorrence of the unnatural rebellion which prevails in some of your Majesty’s Colonies in North-America. We have beheld with that indignation that becomes good subjects, in those parts of your Majesty’s dominions, an impatience of good order and Government, seditious assemblies, traitorous addresses and correspondences, insolent and daring violations of private property and legal authority, and at length an open and hostile defiance of the whole power of the British Empire. Crimes of such magnitude, so unprovoked, so deliberately committed, have justly merited the heaviest punishment; yet the benignity of your Majesty’s counsels and disposition long suspended the stroke of justice. Happy for these deluded men if the delay of punishment had removed the cause for this so necessary an exertion of power. But the malignity of their counsels, and the factious designs of men who have abetted their cause in this Country, suppressed in them all sentiments of gratitude and loyalty, and misled them from their own interest and preservation, to almost inevitable ruin. In a situation so distressful to a good Prince, we lament the necessity, but we applaud the firmness of your resolution to use vigorous measures in the support and protection of the laws and liberties which these licentious men have so unjustly violated, but which we value and enjoy.

And we humbly beg leave to assure your Majesty that we will exert our utmost endeavours, at the expense of our lives and fortunes, to support your Majesty in the defence and maintenance of our constitutional rights, and the honour and dignity of the Crown of these realms.

Given under our common seal, this 19th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1775.

Kingston upon Hull, September 26, 1775.

The humble Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, and principal Inhabitants of the Town of KINGSTON UPON HULL.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s loyal subjects, the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, and principal Inhabitants of your Town of Kingston upon Hull, with grateful hearts crave leave to approach your royal throne with the tribute of our sincere and hearty thanks for the happiness we have enjoyed under your Majesty’s just and mild administration, and at this time particularly, for your paternal care in the conduct of the publick and national affairs, in the present unhappy differences with the British Colonies in America. Permit us to testify our abhorrence and detestation of the violent and unnatural rebellion which those deluded people have been hurried into, by our and their enemies, who, under the mask of friendship and zeal for publick liberty, have, by malicious calumnies and pernicious insinuations, (propagated in the newspapers and by various other means,) instigated measures tending to the utter destruction of all true liberty, and all duty and loyalty to your Majesty. But we hope your Majesty’s wise and resolute proceedings against those your rebellious subjects will at length bring them to a due sense of their duty, and submission to the laws of their Mother Country, so that all differences between them and this nation may be settled upon a permanent foundation, to the mutual happiness and prosperity of both, which we ardently wish. And we beg leave to assure your Majesty, that we (confiding in your justice and goodness) shall always be ready, to the utmost of our several powers and abilities, to support your Majesty in all such just measures as you in your wisdom shall think fit to take to this desirable end.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty:

The humble Address of the Guild or Brotherhood of Masters and Pilots, Seamen of the Trinity-House of KINGSTON UPON HULL.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Guild or Brotherhood of Masters and Pilots, Seamen of the Trinity-House of Kingston upon Hull, consider the many privileges granted to our ancient Corporation by your royal predecessors, and the great advantages derived to us as a maritime body, and to the Town of Hull, by your Majesty’s kind attention to encourage and secure the navigation and commerce of these Kingdoms, as very great and substantial blessings.

To minds thus gratefully inspired, and uninfluenced by party, nothing can create deeper concern than to behold attempts made to disturb publick tranquillity, and to overthrow the peaceable enjoyment of every thing that is dear or valuable.

We therefore think it highly incumbent on us, at a period so truly alarming as the present, when we see the people in most of your Majesty’s Provinces in North-America, cherished and assisted by ill-designing persons, so infatuated as to deny the legislative authority, and so daringly wicked as to act in open rebellion, to give your Majesty this testimony of our unfeigned attachment to your Majesty’s